LYRICS:
I found my way onto a plane, with no-one to pull me away
From my house with a blue door
Got tipped and tangled in the law, stacking bags on hotel floors
In three months I aged a decade
With my new family came support, like I’d never felt before
Late night drinking I found a way
But I see rage on every corner, just couldn’t let it wash over
Inside and outside it for days
Went to the elders, laid it bare, had more anger left to spare
They told me 'thats how this place wins’
Now theres no sense in mumbled curses, if you wanna stick with the muses
And let them guide your way
Let them guide my way
I think Ill let them guide my way…
Muses: This song is autobiographical about my move to Rome and the stresses caused by the paperwork, arriving without a visa, moving bags from one accommodation to another - the whole process. I was sitting having lunch with friends at work and I asked two of them who had lived in the city for years how they coped with the stresses of it - they told me that you cant fight it, or the city will win.
With that I spent more and more time making music and channelling my energies into creating, and with it the muses came. It was at this point where I really experienced this, writing 3 of 4 songs a week. It felt that the muses were visiting and bringing inspiration, and with that, I decided to surrender to the process and although the city was a huge frustration for me, it was pushing me to lean into music more, and with that, results arrived.
Structurally I knew that I wanted the music to change in the final quarter as the mood of the lyrics changed to a more positive note - the songs Twice by Catfish & The Bottlemen and Number One Zero by Audioslave both feature massive changes towards the end of the track that completely shifts the tone - although these were not musical influences on Muses, the concept was directly inspired by both tracks, and again, an attempt to get outside the structural box of a standard 3minute 30second pop/folk song.